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Gasper and Lively combine for 37 as Aces fall to Lady Bears

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 Kerri Gasper records career-high 11 rebounds

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Despite a hot-shooting start, the University of Evansville women’s basketball team fell to Missouri State, 95-65, on Sunday afternoon inside Meeks Family Fieldhouse.

“We executed our game plan in the first quarter. I give Missouri State a lot of credit. They hit some really nice shots and made some nice reads, but I thought defensively and offensively we were really glued in to the gameplan,” said Aces head coach Matt Ruffing. “In the second quarter, our energy level and effort level dropped. Against a team like this that’s picked second in the league you can’t have that. They’re too good to do that and we found out the hard way.”

Leading the Aces were junior Kerri Gasper and sophomore Macie Lively who scored 19 and 18 points, respectively. Gasper set a career-high in the game, pulling down 11 rebounds and finishing with her first career double-double. For the Lady Bears, senior Liza Fruendt scored a game-high 24 points and collected 10 rebounds in the win.

Both teams opened the contest fast as each team had just one empty possession through their first five. After an early 9-9 tie, Missouri State went on a 7-2 run to force an Aces’ timeout with 5:21 left in the quarter. The Lady Bears saw their lead grow as large as nine in the first period, but Evansville battled back to cut it to three after Lively banked in a 40-footer at the buzzer.

The second quarter proved to be a different story as the Aces cooled off, but Missouri State continued its hot shooting performance. Evansville endured a 7:47 scoreless drought to open the quarter as the Lady Bears took a 51-29 lead into the halftime break after earning a 23-4 scoring advantage in the second frame.
Missouri State increased its lead in the third quarter, taking an 81-37 lead with just 1:19 left in the frame. It was Gasper and Lively again who responded in the waning moments of the period to trim the Lady Bears’ lead. Gasper hit a layup with 1:01 left on the clock and Lively knocked-down a triple with 27 seconds remaining in the quarter to trim the Aces’ deficit to 81-42 heading into the final frame.

In the fourth quarter, Evansville continued to chip away at the Lady Bears’ advantage as the Aces narrowed Missouri State’s lead to 90-63 with 2:45 left in the contest. Missouri State would end the game on a 5-2 run to push its advantage back to 95-65 in the Lady Bears’ win.

Coming in as the second-best team in the nation in free-throw shooting percentage, the Aces continued their impressive season at the charity stripe, hitting all 15 of their attempts.

Evansville takes to the road for a three-game road swing starting with a contest in Terre Haute against Indiana State at 6 p.m. (CT) on Friday night.

Eagles Close 2017 With Decisive Win Over Lancers

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University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball ended the 2017 calendar year with a decisive 83-46 victory over NAIA foe Grace College Sunday afternoon at the Physical Activities Center.USI (10-1), ranked No. 8 in the Division II Media Poll and No. 20 in the latest USA Today Sports/Division II Coaches Poll, scored the first 18 points of the contest and never looked back as it concluded its non-conference schedule with its eighth double-digit victory of the season and sixth by 20-or-more points.

Freshman guard Emma DeHart (Indianapolis, Indiana) had 14 points to lead four Screaming Eagles in double-figures. Senior forward Morgan Dahlstrom (Grayslake, Illinois) added 12 points and six rebounds, while junior guard Alex Davidson (Salem, Indiana) and junior forward/center Mikayla Rowan (Brazil, Indiana) chipped in 11 and 10 points, respectively.

Junior guard Milana Matias (Klaipeda, Lithuania) added nine points, while junior forward Kacy Eschweiler (St. Charles, Missouri) contributed eight points and four assists.

The Eagles, who played all 12 players for the first time this season, return to action Thursday at 5:30 p.m. when they host the University of Missouri-St. Louis in a Great Lakes Valley Conference tilt.

Notes
USI shot 49.2 percent (29-59) from the field and were 7-of-17 (.412) from three-point range…the Eagles’ bench outscored the Lancers’ reserves 42-19…USI, which won the turnover battle 21-11, held a 28-0 advantage in points off turnovers…the Eagles also earned 40-30 win on the glass.

1st Quarter (USI 24-7)
USI scored the first 18 points as it ended the first 10 minutes with a commanding 17-point advantage. Dahlstrom had six points to lead the Eagles, who shot 9-of-18 (.500) from the field in the opening period.

2nd Quarter (USI 20-6)
DeHart scored 12 points in the second quarter as the Eagles extended their lead to 44-13 at the intermission. The Eagles were 7-of-14 (.500) from the field and held the Lancers to just 18.2 percent (2-11) shooting.

3rd Quarter (GC 22-18)
Grace (8-8) shot 64.3 percent (9-14) from the field to cut into the Eagles’ halftime advantage. Davidson had six points in the third period to lead the Eagles, who went into the final 10 minutes with a 62-35 lead.

4th Quarter (USI 21-11)
USI shot 56.3 percent (9-16) from field as it closed the contest on a strong note. Rowan had eight points to lead the Eagles in the final 10 minutes.

Newspaper Box Score
Grace vs Southern Indiana
12/31/17 3:15 p.m. at Evansville, IN (PAC)

SOUTHERN INDIANA 83, GRACE 46

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE !

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Commentary: Happy New Year, Mr. President

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By John Krull
TheStatehouseFile.com 

INDIANAPOLIS – The easy part is over.

What follows now is going to be hard – brutally hard.

This, of course, is not what President Donald Trump seems to think, but this president works hard to keep facts or thoughtful analysis from intruding into his elaborately constructed fantasy world. Denial, it turns out, is not just a river in Africa but also a place called Mar-a-Lago.

The president has told CNN and others that the toughest part of his presidency is behind him. He said that getting his own party to vote with him on the tax cut package was the rough stuff. Persuading Democrats and Republicans to work together on infrastructure rebuilding and repealing what remains of the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – will be a breeze.

Or so Donald Trump says.

He’s wrong about that, of course.

Some of the reasons he’s wrong are generic.

Election years such as 2018 rarely are times for bipartisan cooperation. The two parties see elections as moments to draw distinctions – establish differences – and force voters to make choices.

The incentives for Democrats and Republicans to work together at such times are few and the motivations for them to do everything they can to undermine and undercut each other are many.

This always has been true, but it is truer still in this hyper-partisan era. The chances that Republicans and Democrats will link arms when the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court are in the balance are somewhere between nil and non-existent.

The coming year will be about who wins and who loses, not about who wants to sing kumbaya.

If anything, the battling and bloodletting will be even fiercer this election year because of the way this president has conducted himself and his presidency.

Democrats have no reason to work with Trump.

They don’t like him, they don’t trust him and, increasingly, they see him as both a fat target and a valuable campaign asset. They know that the animosity toward Trump among progressives rallies the Democratic Party’s base better than any Democratic candidate could.

The president may boast that Republicans have won all five House special elections since he took office, but, as is often the case, his boasts are based more on fantasy than fact. Those races were in congressional districts that were supposed to be solidly red, yet the antipathy to Trump and Republican policies turned several of those contests into nail-biters.

The races in Virginia and Alabama have been telling.

Trump touted that Republican Ed Gillespie lost because Gillespie didn’t embrace Trumpism. That doesn’t seem likely, but we’ll indulge the president on that one and let him rationalize the defeat any way he wants.

What he can’t explain is how the Virginia legislature, which was a two-to-one GOP stronghold prior to the election, became a body in which control of the chamber had to be determined by drawing lots from a hat.

Strong feelings about Trumpism unleashed a landslide in Virginia, just not in the direction the president wanted.

In Alabama – where Democrats have public approval ratings just slightly higher than communicable diseases – Republicans lost a U.S. Senate seat.

Alabama illustrates why Trump’s troubles are about to get worse.

The reason Republicans lost there is because sometime presidential Svengali and white nationalist Steve Bannon decided that beating up on other Republicans was even more fun than defeating Democrats.

Bannon has promised to take the fight to many other Republican strongholds around the country. Wherever he goes, disaster for the GOP will follow, because only three outcomes from Bannon’s efforts are possible.

The first is that the Republican incumbent Bannon tries to topple survives the attack and emerges believing he owes nothing to a president, even one of his own party, who couldn’t keep his pit bull leashed.

The second is Bannon succeeds and leaves behind him a band of resentful Republican lame ducks who see no reason to watch the back of a president who didn’t watch theirs.

The third is that these intramural battles so weaken the GOP that Democrats in red states become plausible candidates (think Alabama) and those in swing states (think Virginia) become favorites.

President Trump doubtless thought 2017 was a tough year.

He needs to think again.

FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.

The City County Observer posted this article without opinion, bias or editing.

NEW YEAR TRUMP AND LITTLE KIM

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As the years pass, some things stay the same.

Presidents come and go, but North Korea remains a pain in the butt. Things don’t change much. Here’s a New Year’s cartoon I drew three years ago with Obama and Li’l Kim.

I don’t think we’ll see a change in North Korea, but hopefully we’ll see a new president getting bitten in the butt in another three years.

DOJ Blows Past Deadline to Turn Over Documents to Congress on Dossier

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TOWNHALL  by Katie Pavlich
Posted: Jan, 1-2018
 
In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Nunes points out that not only did DOJ mislead his Committee about the existense of documents, they also unlawfully failed to comply with congressional requests.

 “Several weeks ago, DOJ informed the Committee that the basic investigatory documents demanded by the subpoenas, FBI Form FD-302 interview summaries, did not exist. However, shortly before my meeting with you in early December, DOJ subsequently located and produced numerous FD-302s pertaining to the Steele dossier, thereby rendering the initial response disingenuous at best,” Nunes wrote.

“As it turns out, not only did documents exist that were directly responsive to the Committee’s subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the Committee’s investigation were brought to light. Given the content and impact of these supposedly newly-discovered FD-302s, the Committee is no longer able to accept your purported basis for DOJ’s blanket refusal to provide responsive FBI Form FD-1023s–documenting meetings between FBI officials and FBI confidential human sources-or anything less than full and complete compliance with its subpoenas,” he continued.

The subpoenas were sent out in August and have been ignored for months.

Nunes is seeking documentation about the dossier, but is also demanding interview dates for the following officials: 

Former DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr

FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Peter Strzok

FBI Attorney James Baker

FBI Attorney Lisa Page

FBI Attorney Sally Moyer

FBI Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Greg Brower.

DOJ now has until January 3 to comply as Nunes readies contempt charges.

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